Yamdena language
Yamdena is an Austronesian language of Yamdena and surrounding islands in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. In 1991, there were an estimated speakers of the language. Current BPS data has the present number of speakers at.
Phonology
Consonants
- Stops can very rarely be realized as coarticulated sounds by some speakers.
- can be heard as voiceless in free variation when before initial voiceless stops, or after voiceless stops.
- is heard as labialized when occurring before liquids, or in word-final position.
- can be heard as in free variation intervocalically, and as when before voiceless consonants.
- when occurring before can also be heard as palatal stops.
Vowels
- Vowels can be heard as within unstressed syllables.
- can be heard as word-finally, after vowels.
- can be heard as when before.